He seemed to carry with him the look of history, as if Merlin himself was peering over those glasses, challenging your response. I sat in his office at the end of my last semester, for a professor/student evaluation of some sort, mandatory for graduation, and he said, "Elizabeth, you are a good person." I said, jokingly, "I try." He answered abruptly, "You don't have to try", chiding me a little for laughing off the compliment. It was one of those moments that just makes you squirm. It still makes me ill to note that I only ever took two classes from him.